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Word: amalgamation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration: "I have no belief/ but I believe/ I'm a walking contradiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NOT YOUR PARENTS' PUNK | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...Chihuahua, they think), when he was born (perhaps 1955), or what he looks like (they have only one photograph), they do know that he is the smoothest, smartest and most powerful of Mexico's drug lords. He is allegedly the leading figure of the "Mexican federation," a loose amalgam of families that has turned Mexico's drug trade into one that rivals Colombia's in its pervasiveness and the danger it poses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEIGHBORS | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

Many students who live off-campus have tried and decided against the residential system, saying they felt restricted by the constant amalgam of their academic and personal lives...

Author: By Anne L. Brody, | Title: A Home, NOT a House | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...wild evaluation of the '90s, Tooth Imprints on a Corndog meanders along thematic paths through the discontinuous and often confounding amalgam that is contemporary culture. It successfully unites them under a splendidly crafted satirical umbrella, one that would fit perfectly on a beach this week. Photo Courtesy of Harmony Books and Mark Leyner

Author: By Mark Leyner, | Title: Leyner Imprints on Paranoid World | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

...surprisingly, Vowl must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WORLD OF HUMOR AND LOSS | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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